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LiDAR map of Porthcawl
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Porthcawl, a community in Bridgend, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 57 recorded places here: 33 Coflein records, 11 listed buildings, 10 places recorded in Wikidata, 3 scheduled monuments. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the community lies between about 8 m and 77 m above sea level; its highest point is about 104 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 1 barrow or cairn and 1 Roman site.
Porthcawl on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Porthcawl, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Porthcawl. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
See Porthcawl with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network and the 57 recorded places in the community, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- Bridgend, Wales
- Area
- 13.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 57
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 8–77 m above sea level; highest 104 m
- ONS code
- W04000645
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Nottage Court Inscribed StoneScheduled monument
- Hutchwns round barrowScheduled monument
- Dan-y-Graig Roman villaScheduled monument
Listed buildings
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Grand Pavilion
- The Rest
- Church of All Saints
- Lighthouse on Breakwater Porthcawl Harbour
- Capel y Tabernacl
- The Old Police Station
- Public Conveniences
- The Breakwater
- Newton Primary School
- Former Tramroad and Railway bridge over Moor Lane
Other recorded places
- St David's Well, NottageCoflein record
- St John's Well, Newton; Sandford's WellCoflein record
- Lifeboat Station, PorthcawlCoflein record
- Coastguard Station, PorthcawlCoflein record
- Royal Porthcawl Golf Club and ClubhouseCoflein record
- Cairn near Mount Pleasant on Newton DownCoflein record
- Porthcawl Comprehensive SchoolCoflein record
- Castell MorlaisWikidata place
- Tower, Rhych Point, PorthcawlCoflein record
- Tycoch Farm, Porthcawl, Ironstone MineCoflein record
- Ffynnon Fawr, NottageCoflein record
- Coney Beach Pleasure ParkWikidata place
- Seabank HotelWikidata place
- St David's ChurchWikidata place
- Berea Schoolroom, Llandudwg Uchaf, TythegstoneCoflein record
- Cefncribwr, Llandudwg Uchaf, Tythegstone HigherCoflein record
- Cefncribwr, Llandudwg Uchaf, Tythegstone HigherCoflein record
- Hope Free Congregational Chapel, Newton NottageCoflein record
- New Road English Independent Chapel, New RoadCoflein record
- Newton, Newton Nottage; Drenewydd Yn NotaisCoflein record
Nearest places with their own page
- Candleston Castle4.6 km east
- Kenfig Castle4.9 km north-west
- Ogmore Castle5.7 km east
Neighbouring parishes
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government, 1 m DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
- Coflein, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Open Government Licence.
Last updated 2026-10-16.